Welcome to The Watercooler, the companion forum to Northern Attack and all things concerning The Office on NBC.

Guests are free to browse the forums, although you will need to register for an account if you wish to participate in the discussions or use any of the advanced features of the forum (bookmarks, history, etc).

This is particularly important. Before you create a new discussion topic, please check to see if the topic already exists (view a list of the more popular threads). I have created threads for each of the episodes and characters, as well as topics for the more popular types of discussions (media happenings, trivia games, quotes, plugging other Office sites, etc). Chances are a thread already exists for the topic you wish to discuss.

I do have one specific rule to go over here, and that is that you all leave the creation of the episode-specific discussion threads (2.16 Valentine's Day, 2.17 Dwight's Speech, etc.) up to the moderators. There is a specific format that I intend on using for those discussion threads. I will create discussions for upcoming episodes early enough to give you all sufficient time to speculate (without spoilers) on those episodes.

Follow the spoiler policy

Please familiarize yourself with our rules regarding the posting and discussion of spoliers.

Standard rules of English apply.

A few misspellings and run-on sentences here and there is no big deal, but try not to make a habit of speaking in broken English. This also means no excessive use of caps, question marks and exclamation points. Just use your common sense.

Markdown is your friend.

Markdown allows you to write and format text naturally without using HTML. It requires no action on your part to activate (it's enabled by default when you create your account) and is strongly recommended as the format of choice when posting comments.

Avatars and account pictures are currently disabled.

I do plan on adding support for them at some point. I will let you know when.

Respect the moderators.

That would be me (James), Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bri, Asdfaeou, Daoust, Anque, and Mixed Berries. We're all very nice people. Drop me a line at james@northernattack.com if you have any questions.